Livid waitress tipped just $0.05 because she was wearing enforced face mask

A waitress in Lincoln, Nebraska has taken to social media to reveal that she was tipped just $0.05 due to her wearing a mandatory face mask during her shift.

The waitress works at the Big Red East in Lincoln, Nebraska according to Newsweek. According to the waitress, she was left a tip of just five cents on a $38.20 bill after serving a man and his child. Written on the receipt was,"get rid of masks, tips will be bigger."

"First and foremost, the masks are a city mandate and there is nothing I or management can do about. How is me wearing a mask affecting his health? Here in Lincoln, restaurant customers are not even required to wear masks at the table.

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"Secondly, servers make less than $3 an hour typically, so our entire pay depends on tips," the waitress wrote on Facebook.

"I was very nice to this guy and his young son. They got their drinks and food on time and when I asked them how everything was tasting he said it was good and had no complaints."

Screenshots of the Facebook post and the bill were later shared to Twitter along with the caption "THE AUDACITY."

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And Twitter users gave their opinions on the situation. One person wrote, "Who here thinks “the customer is always right” is toxic and should be stopped because it creates an atmosphere where people can abuse minimum wage workers and dehumanize them instead of being grateful they are serving them in the middle of a pandemic"

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Another commenter wrote, "This has happened to me so much over the past month. People don’t give a f*ck about how it affects people’s lives"

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Newsweek reports that Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird imposed a city-wide mandate last month that requires people to wear a face covering while indoors, to help limit the spread of coronavirus.